From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: will.dockery{at}gmail.com
Subject: Re: Pike: the new Cage?

On Thursday, April 24, 2014 4:11:12 PM UTC-4, Wiseguy wrote:
> 
> But Star Trek was supposed to be different from past science 
> fiction...more intelligent, fewer "monsters."  Any number of
episodes  
> would have been suitable for a premiere, especially "Where No Man Has 
> Gone Before."
> 
> But NBC chose "The Man Trap" BECAUSE it looked (to them)
like old-style 
> science fiction which defeated the whole purpose of this new science 
> fiction series.
> 
> "The Man Trap" would have been fine as the fifth episode
broadcast, just 
> not the premiere.

Yes, in the end, NBC obviously aimed for catching as many viewers as they
could, rather than the choice to go where no network had gone before.
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